Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-28
THE EXHIBITION.
The CoIored State Fair Has Good
Weather and Large Crowd on
It's Third Days
Gormanta and Trus Blns Rua Dead Heat
on tbs Five-Eighths Mile Dash,
The Dress Parade,

The colored peoples fair lad fine
weather duriog IT'S third day, end Isrger
crowd WAS present than or either 81 the
previous days. The morning WAS taken
up ia Inspecting tie articles on e1hioi-
ton in the pavilion. In the siterr DON
| the Fort Worth coIored base ball club,
the Young Strikers, undertook to play
smother game Of bail With the Fly-a ways
OF Galveston, but were very badly de-
fested- The game resulted Galveston,
| %; Fort Worth, 9.
THE RACES.
The most Interesting feature of the day
was the races, and large crowd, Isrger
than yesterday, was out to witness the
contests. The track was not al that
could be wished, although much i'm
| proved By the sunshine over what Il was
the day before.
| The first heat was flve-eighths mile
dash and had four entries Luke t, by
T. Clark; Germans, by r. Z. Maddox;
| True Blue, by Adams & Thomas, and
Governor Ross, by d. o. Buchanan. True
Blue got of with little advantage, which
he gradually Increased up to the half
post. After that YVES passed GermSnia
began TO creep up from
second place. leaving the others
| hCpelessly in the rear. Then, just
before the three-quarter post was reached
began the dead hest with which they An
| isned, Tor the horses came under the Wire
| without the difference OF hair between
the two horses. Luke T Yves in second
place. Time, II9.
! After this race it was announced that
scratch quarter mile dash would be run
between police force horses, and four sni-
mails went into r, they being those Of
Deputy Sheriff m Maddox, and officers
J. W. Cocker, Ben G. Evans and Dick
Kits. The race vas ior a pot OF $20.
Jim Maddox's horse won.
The second race on the list,
g seven-eighths mile Dash was
/ then run. There were three
entries: Eve Brittou by Wiilism
Sandford; Susie By William Lambert,
and Luke Snort By R. E. Maddox. The
horses got q splendid start As the three
qusrter post Luxe Short hsd fallen
slightly IN the rear, but at the hall had
! taken second place with Eva B,ittoG be-
hind, but she got up to second place be-
fore the half post was reecned, and st
! just sitter that point Luxe Short YVES dis
JSnCed. AZ tde three quarter post Eva
! Britton end Susie S were together and
they came whipping home, passing under
TIE wire with Susie s winner by half 8
length. Time lao.
Tae dead heat between GeFmslia and
True Blue was pcxs run CT The horses
got sn even stert. At the naf-Gile post
| GermGnia had taken first position and
PIue Bloc never made up the space.
/ TIME, I:10.
1 Tho hopSi7cy he
! yesterday taa1 On the previous dEy and
( things were pretty lively around the pool
| seller's box.
After the races were over aud the
crowd had repaired to the pavilion, the
| three military companies gave dress
| parade that w6s higdly C, mmended.
| The Galveston Cadet Cornet band
| furnished excellent music through the
! day st the grand stand and ct the dress
| parade.
Beside the smusements for the visitors
| TO the fsir furnished by the races and ex-
hibitioD, the managers are carrying on g
| series OF bslls IL the evenings 81 1oo
pavilion, so the calored people ere having
q continuous round CT pleasure this week.
TODAY's RACES.
| The races to-day promise TO be even
| more Interesting ti3l those If yesterday.
There are three events On the programme
/ SIS follows: First race, oGe-6slf mile
heats: Entries, Ran After z N, By Adams
< ThOmss; Leila FurgesOn, by ". E. H.
Smith AID Abe K, by D. o. Buchanan.
S cnnd race, racing; eutriss, idiewyld,
by Adams Thomas; Daisy Freeman, r.
z. Maddox, and Billy B, by 3 L. Terry.
Third race, one mile das1; eatcieS, Eva
Britt0r, by william Sanford; Susie S.,
By Lambert; and Brigham Young, by
Charles Mcdaniel.